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what's wrong with kdrama and bl drama fans??
Idk if you guys are aware of it, but recently a Thai BL actor, Justin Moir, who's also a teenager, was caught reposting homophobic, pro-Trump,pro- MAGA and sexist tiktoks that even promoted femicide. Some of those reposts were from as recently as January this year. Obviously, he got a lot of backlash and was eventually removed from his company.
But what shocked me was the huge number of fans--mind you, WOMEN--who were defending him like crazy. They kept saying it was "too harsh" to terminate his contract and that people shouldn't call him out because he's only 15 and people can make mistakes when it was literally promoting killing women. They were babying him like he was 5 years old. later he posted a chat gpt generated apology but i am damn sure he's heading straight down the incel pipeline.
And then there's another case. Idk if you guys remember that one disgusting groomer pedo actor Kim Soo hyun. He was dating a girl who was 12 years younger than him when she was only 15, and later that girl died by suicide. I came across an article about how he returned to acting just a year after that whole incident, and reading the comments pissed me off so bad. Seeing so many women defending that groomer was sick. And of course, he got to go back to his daily life and career like nothing happened, while these fans were celebrating and defending him like crazy.
Now I get why people think that kdrama fans are just crazy Koreaboos
Internalised misogyny plus living in a patriarchal society will do that to you, women are always expected to give grace to shitty men and some genuinely believe they will learn from their mistakes and grow as people when it's obvious from a mile away they won't. In my opinion though I do think it's more prevalent with female fans of Asian media (ex...... 4 reply
Celebrity worship is deeply ingrained in much of Asian entertainment culture, and as it's said patriarchy is frequently upheld by mostly women. That's one reason powerful men especially celebrities can get away with so much. It often doesn't seem to matter whether they're a rapist or a pedophile. 2 reply